[mythtv-users] PVR-250/350 and MiniITX?

Jeffrey Brent McBeth mcbeth at broggs.org
Wed May 7 13:51:46 EDT 2003


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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:43:24AM -0700, Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:05:01AM -0700, Cheng Zhou wrote:
> > Now that WinTV PVR-250/350 support has been added to MythTV, I'm hoping that I
> > may finally realize my dream of building a Mini-ITX based PVR. I just can't
> > stand the noisy CPU fans that accompany most modern processors so I
> > figure that this calls for a passive-cooled CPU solution. Anyway, I
> > would greatly appreciate any feedback and experiences on building a
> > MiniITX based MythTV box, particularly one based on the new PVR-250/350
> > support.
> 
> The cpu requirements of mythtv place it just out of reach of the fanless
> epia m class computers. Get the mpeg accelleration going on the
> castelrock graphics driver and you may have something.

It is out of reach of the non-m class computers, but my M9000 can handle
decoding of 480x480 MPEG2/4 just fine.  When I had a straight WinTV, Live TV
was 320x240 and recording was 480x480 and it worked just fine (no skipped
frames)

Jeff

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